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January 28, 2008
Neocon Democracy

Max Boot and Bing West have detected Iraq’s No. 1 problem. Its name is Nouri Maliki:

However, it is the government’s ineffectiveness, not the insurgency, that is Iraq’s biggest problem. Maliki has antagonized the Kurds, Sunnis and most of the Shiite parties.

To solve the problem, they propose to use a modern form of government selection, instead of clinging to specific personal.

The U.S. should support democracy in Iraq, not Maliki per se.

So what is their plan? A recall vote? New elections? Purple fingers?

Kind of.

This time Boot and West demand real imperial democracy in Iraq. The type where only one vote is relevant. That of the emperor himself.

If [Maliki] doesn’t come through, the American president may have no choice but to cast his vote — probably a decisive one — against the Iraqi prime minister.

Since when does Bush carry an Iraqi passport?

Posted by b on January 28, 2008 at 18:29 UTC | Permalink
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it would seem as if it is very hot indeed for the occupying power in diyal in the last monthjs

Posted by: remembereringgiap | Jan 28 2008 18:35 utc | 1

great catch

Posted by: bea | Jan 28 2008 19:44 utc | 2

Well, for a long time I thought Maliki by all political logic would fall in some sort of coup. He was/is by all appearances an intrangient puppet, a sectarian, Iran loving, do nothing, benchmark ignoring sloth. Who also has remained profoundly weak throughout his tenure, allowing large chunks of his government to drift in and out of compliance. And thats when it dawned on me thats how Bush has came to love him in his special sort of way. That Maliki, with all his apparent flaws, weakness’, and vulnerabilities is actually performing exactly how Bush expects him to perform. Maliki is Bushes tiny dancer, who obliges master not with power or complicity, but by a feat of remaining frozen in a delicate eleve (do not attempt to visualize this). He is the fulcrum on which the birthday cake of American interests is balanced and it’s his job is to
prevent all inclinations that could easily snowball into overt nationalism, civil war, or Hobbesian chaos. And also, to remain as the catch all repository of blame for everything that has failed to manifest or has gone wrong.

Posted by: anna missed | Jan 28 2008 20:58 utc | 3

@anna missed #3
Wow, how eloquently put. Bravo.

Posted by: Bea | Jan 28 2008 21:30 utc | 4

Thanks Bea, I forgot to add that Maliki will probably remain Bushes tiny dancer until either the balls of his feet, his balls, or his feet finally give out under the pressure. And would expect his successor to continue with pretty much the same choreography.

Posted by: anna missed | Jan 28 2008 21:38 utc | 5

yes, very eloquent anna missed.
i like this passage from the article.
Maliki has slighted governance while consolidating sectarian control via a vulpine clique. In a flight from reality, his aides balked over sending a letter to the U.N. requesting that coalition forces remain in Iraq, even though Maliki wouldn’t last a day without coalition support.
say it isn’t so!!!! lol jeez, what will they come up w/next? one man one vote..bush’s.

Posted by: annie | Jan 28 2008 23:13 utc | 6

th us occupation has made a cemetry of sovereign iraq – massacring its way to all point east & west north & south
why not be done with it & stick a cadaver in a chair & let it rule

Posted by: remembereringgiap | Jan 28 2008 23:18 utc | 7

Here’s the Iraq government in action:
BAGHDAD, IRAQ — The Iraqi government is eager to reach agreement to extend the right for U.S. forces to continue to conduct combat operations here beyond this year, a spokesman said Saturday, but he stressed that Iraq must not be used as a launch pad for attacks against neighboring countries.
Demand comes amid debate over ongoing operations
In other words it’s okay for the troops to stay and kill Iraqis as long as they want but they better not attack Iran. Talk about a suckers game.
Anbybody want to bet that once the surge draws down the Sadr truce ends and the Awakening movement goes back to the resistance?

Posted by: Sam | Jan 29 2008 0:38 utc | 8

” However, it is the government’s ineffectiveness, not the insurgency, that is Iraq’s biggest problem. Maliki has antagonized the Kurds, Sunnis and most of the Shiite parties.”

He has antagonized all these groups by default, in that to grant any special favor (even his own DAWA party faction controlled by Ibrahim al-Jaafari) runs the risk (because he is so weak) of consuming the interests he represents (himself in particular). This works well for the U.S. in not allowing other more unpredictable anti-occupation parties to gain power and keeping any nationalist alliances from forming. It also applies to Maliki as well, as he too must remain weak, dependent and unable to consolidate state power. Any party or alliance strong enough to manage state power wouldn’t be dependent on the puppet master. So the puppet master cannot allow any credible state power to emerge. And blaming that on Maliki is a sick straw man joke, whose purpose I suppose is to blame Maliki for Bush’s failure to secure the country for exploitation. Which can’t happen until some semblance of state power emerges. Which Bush must prevent from happening. Which would be an amusing catch-22 if it didn’t require a 24 hour a day human wood chipper to maintain it, in its precarious and pointless abeyance.

Posted by: anna missed | Jan 29 2008 0:46 utc | 9

Well, it didn’t take more than a minute before Bush abandoned US in his SOTUA
tonight, and started talking about the security of America and the peace of the
world now we are spreading the contagious disease of freedom (from one’s property).
Between the $189B for “undisclosed national security purposes” and the $150B
for “undisclosed economic stimulus purposes”, and the $60B for “interest on
the debt for undisclosed fiduciary malfeasance”, almost HALF A TRILLION, poof!
My grandfather says the only terrorists are the ones in the White House, and is
bagging up silver dollars and burying them in coffee cans in his cellar. He’s
in the resignation stage of denial. The rest of US are in the oblivion stage.
You deserve a Bud today! (just make sure it’s not a puna bud)
The vaults at Fort Knox are empty, filled only with low-grade gold seized from
Americans during WWII and melted down. The Social Security Trust Fund is empty,
filled with Treasury bills, once seniored, now juniored to China and Saudi.
55% of Americans work in or for government and 55% of our budget is for militarism.
We are so bankrupt it’s not funny, but the bank plays on. “Nearer My God To Thee”.
America is the Fourth Reich nee Long March, on performance enhancing pablumisms.
Ladies and Gentlemen, America is working again, and our enemies will be defeated!!
And our enemies will be defeated!!
And our enemies will be defeated!!
And our enemies will be defeated!!
Juno Hilo Charlie!

Posted by: Hooah Damm | Jan 29 2008 2:51 utc | 10

Buy that man (?) a drink…
Caught Kansas Governor Kathleen Sebelius speech on the way back from swimming and it was sickening, I listened to less than two minutes of claptrap bullshit, before it dawned on me, –mind you, this was prior to knowing who it was speaking, I thought at first that it was Queen of capital hill, Nancy Pelosi–but it dawned on me after listening to her smarmy monotone voice as she talked about her and her fathers and her father in laws public service, that THESE PEOPLE SERIOUSLY BELIEVE THEY ARE HERO’S. Do you get that? They honestly believe they are making the world a better place, and for that you should be so noble.
That you should see them as they see themselves, as celebrity, as champion’s, and superstars. It became crystal clear to me, they know whats best for you, with their paladin talent. And you should fall in line. That they see themselves as doing gods work, the are paragon of chivalry and their shit don’t stink, but yours sure does.
This lickboot, said ‘we must work together’ with these war criminals at least four time within the short time I listened. Until I got so bent, I plugged in my Tool cd, and was so pissed, I turned my system up to 11 and nearly blew my speakers. I hate these fuckers, I seriously hate them. And what makes it so much more ghastly, more horrendous, is that I know, in a Buddhist sense, that my abject loathing for these elite jackals binds me to them in some form. And I am disgusted by that more than I can convey.

Posted by: Uncle $cam | Jan 29 2008 4:35 utc | 11

Cliff Notes: “Sleep well, then get back to work.” (you lazy buggers)
As a Scottish proverb wisely jokes, may you live long enough to see
your most cherished dreams and greatest faiths dashed in your face,
so that your mind projects whirling dervishes upon your waking gaze.
“If the Greatest Teaching distilled from all the world’s faiths is this,
that the condition of G-d’s blessing is absolute surrender of all into
His hands, praise G-d, then by what magic of Lucifer and Lucre can the
President of our once great nation stand before his people and say to
them, surrender not! By what witchcraft does he rise up the whirlwind,
and say I will do what I will because I speak with God and so I am He?
But this sorcery and perfidious treason alone is not the Last Great
Abomination. No, that Great Evil is the willingness of his people to
absolutely surrender their faith and belief to a foul-tongued warlord.
As God parted the seas for the followers of Moses, so God will drown
the sycophants to George Bush and Richard Cheney’s American Halliban.”

Posted by: Deepak Choctaw | Jan 29 2008 6:10 utc | 12

Obama is pro-nuclear power. I’d put Clinton’s ‘agnosticism’ on nuclear power to his left. Wait, nevermind. I’ve got nothing.
Nice fu**ing blog, this.
🙂

Posted by: bellgong | Jan 29 2008 6:11 utc | 13

a round for the house!

Posted by: annie | Jan 29 2008 6:17 utc | 14

Max Boot and Bing West, in the great tradition of the Soviet Politburo, direct the Central Committee in the White House to engineer the makeup of the Iraqi government. And people actually thought they were consevatives. America likes to brag that it is a conservative country but just mention the word recession and the welfare checks are allotted. $600 checks for all, $300 if you’re part of the lower caste. The General Secretary will remake the entire Middle East in true socialist liberal spirit bringing American style democracy at the point of a gun and welfare checks for those that cooperate. All it takes is borrowing more money and we all know there is no shortage of suckers willing to lend.

Posted by: Sam | Jan 29 2008 6:53 utc | 15

U$, Jerk-Off from early Tool album Opiate springs to mind when thinking of these murderous thugs.

Posted by: ran | Jan 29 2008 12:20 utc | 16

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